Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-02
HILAND GRAY.

Not long since your humble servant
found it convenient and pleasure, as
has already been intimated in former
communication, to remain over night at
the Messrs. Il. and Z. Keiley's of East
Poultney, VT, the breeders and owners
of Hiland Gray; a horse that has render
ed these gentlemen somewhat famous in
horse history. In former article gave
somewhat of detailed account of the
old horse and now it will be my purpose
to render a like service to his progeny,
for they possess in a very large degree
many desirable and valuable character
istcs and qualities that not only COM
mand for them long prices and high fig
ures, but has established an individuality
and distinctiveness that will be likely to
of horses that will always live in horse
history. Not only by reason of their
trotting and speed qualities, but their
style, size, docility and combination of
good qualities will ever make them desir-
able for so many generally useful pur-
poses that the Hiland Grays will live on,
as has the Hambletonians and Clays and
Outstripping all the other families of the
Morgan horse by reason of their superior
size and showing qualities. For years
there has been demand for the old
horses colts from weanlings up, at prices
ranging from two hundred to five, eight
and twelve hundred dollars, and the high
est price ever paid for Vermont bred
horse was for Florence. This horse is
now owned by j. A. Bailey of New York
city, p. Il. Barnum's partner in the show
business. She was bred by Mr. Daley of
Poultney, dam Polly Daley out of the Ed
Brown horse; this horse was sired by
the Conkling horse and he by Green
Mountain Morgan. Polly Daley's dam
was from Biggart's Rather. The dam of
the Conkling horse was the Fassett mare
out of Andrus' Hambletonian. She was
also the dam of Honest Dan and Joker
the latter has record of %. Florence
has record of 2 :23i and has trotted from
wire to wire in race in 2lS4 and has
shown private trial in 2;l6. At the
great national show in New York city
last September in class for trotting bred
mares and geldings of any age, with sew
en- entries from the very best Hambleton-
ians that could be obtained, she got the
second premium. In the class for gentle
mans roadsters with twelve competitors
she got first premium. Her full brother,
Don Carlos, obtained record this season
at Boston of 2 :2S4. Parnell is a good
one and has trotted trials in :27. Geo.
Haner of Melrose, n. Y, has a young
stallion, brother to Florence, that has
shown him trials much less than 2 80.
Whoever gets him from Mr.. Haner will
have their pocKet-book or bank account
squeezed to the extent of $1,000. The
produce of three mares bred, season of
1881, to the old horse by n. l.. Wall of
Schaghticoke, N. Y, sold respectively as
follows: A PAGER FLY that showed a
trial mile in 2 20 sold to w. A. Collins
for $500; trotter sold for 5000, and the
third sold for $3.50, making a gross of
S2,350. j. X. p. Pine of Troy sold a pa
Ger bred by Mr.. Cawley of Granville to a
party in Georgia last season for $1,000.
Ed. Bowman of Rutland has a three
year-old FLY by Hiland Gray, dam by
Daniel Lambert, that with only four
weeks handling that impartial judges de-
clared ought to have had the race at the
Vermont breeders meeting last fall at